Kansas City Public Schools has settled a lawsuit over how it handled students protesting during a speech by Governor Nixon last year.
The students were protesting the shooting of Michael Brown during a speech at the Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in November, when they were ordered to sit down.
They refused, so school officials made them serve Saturday detention.
That led to the suit, about a month later, from the American Civil Liberties Union, which argued the students’ rights to free speech had been violated.
The school says it didn’t give the students detention for exercising their free speech rights, but instead for failing to sit down.
The district says it isn’t required to compensate the students, or pay the ACLU’s attorney fees.
U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple dismissed the lawsuit today, but the settlement terms aren’t available.
